why are we all aspiring filmmakers?

my friend deep has some thoughts on this too, but i think one of the reasons is that in film there is no easy way to verify talent or lack of it. your ability as a filmmaker becomes clear only after you have made a film. most of us are never going to get this opportunity, so we can comfortably go on calling ourselves aspiring filmmakers all our lives. when i am a 75 year old aspiring filmmaker and someone asks me why i never made a movie, all i have to say is, "the capitalist bastards didn't want to fund my masterpiece."